Improvement in oll cake strippers



MAES.

Uil-Cake Strippers.

NO. 134,429. Patented Dec.31,1872.

AM. PHOTAL/THOGRAPHIG CllNJ. (DSBOHNES FRODESS.)

'WASHINGTON' HAWES, OF PORT RICHMOND, NEW YORK.

IMPRovEEier in olLfcAKE srRlPPERs.

. .Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 134,429, datedDecember 31, 1872.

pins on the cylinder, and attached to it sov that the revolution causesthe cloth to be wound on it and stripped from the cake, which is firstmoved from 'under the roller and then over it and partly under it again,in such manner that the cloth which is wrapped over the cake endwisewill be unwrapped'from both sides and the ends, and the cake deliv eredupon the table, to be removed. The motion of the cylinder then ceases,and the cloth is pulled 0E by hand, the cylinder being revolved bypulling the cloth. An elevating device is also combined with the tablefor use, if necessary, in pressing the cake upon the roller, to causethe pins to engage the cloth. The roller may be arranged to move downagainst the cloth for this purpose, and the lever dispensed with; or oneend of the cake may be held up by hand to the roller by the attendantwho presents the cake to be stripped.

Figure l is a longitudinal sectional elevation of my improved stripper.Fig. 2 is a plan View.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Ais atable; B, a stripping-roller; O, ahook or point on the roller forengaging the cloth. D is a cloth Wrapper, in which the oil-cake E iswrapped when it comes from the press in which it is formed. F is alifter for raising the cake up to the roller.

Gr is a lever for working the lifter.

The roller is mounted in bearings H above the table, a little higherthan the thickness of the cake, and has a crank, I, or any othersuitable means for turning it.

The oil-meal being spread in a long wide mass is wrapped in a strongcloth cover in the manner indicated by the dotted lines E, representedinFi g. 1. Itis then subjected to avery powerful press for expressingthe oil and forming the cake; this causes the cover to adhere verystrongly to the pressed cake, so that it is very diftcult to strip orpull it oi by hand, by which it has been done entirely up to this time.I propose to remove the covers by power, and therefore employ astripping-roller and table, as here shown, presenting the oil-cakebetween the roller and the table, so that the pins of the roller engagethat end of the cloth which is uppermost where the two ends meet andoverlap, as -indicated by dotted lines k, Fig. 1. As soon as the lclothis so engaged it winds on the roller, drawing the cake 'along the table,say to the right, until the end of the cake is reached; then it rises tothe top of the roller and moves back to the left till the other endpasses over the roller and falls to the table again; then the cake isdrawn under the roller, moving to the right until the cloth is Whollywound on the roller and stripped from the cake. The cake is then removedby hand, the roller is thrown out of the gear, and the cloth pulled offthe roller. This completes the operation.

Nippers or other equivalent devices for en* gaging the cloth may be usedinstead of the hooks or points, if preferred.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Iatent- 1. The combination of the stripping-roller and thetable, the roller being provided with hooks or points and relativelyarranged with the table, to be adapted for stripping the covers fromoil-cake, substantially in the manner herein described.

2. The combination of an elevator or lifter with the stripping-rollerand table, substantially as speclied.

v WASHINGTON HAWES.

Witnesses: p

T. B. Mosnna, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

